Multicentric Bowen disease in linear porokeratosis.

نویسندگان

  • Emmanuella Guenova
  • Wolfram Hoetzenecker
  • Gisela Metzler
  • Martin Röcken
  • Martin Schaller
چکیده

Linear porokeratosis is a genodermatosis, caused by a clonal proliferation of keratinocytes along the lines of Blaschko. This type of porokeratosis is particularly susceptible to malignant degeneration e.g. to Bowen disease, a squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in situ with the potential for significant lateral spread. Here we report a case of linear porokeratosis on the left leg of a 56-year-old man, complicated with two lesions of multicentric Bowen disease.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • European journal of dermatology : EJD

دوره 17 5  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2007